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2025

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D-Index
93
Citations
31691
World Ranking
216
National Ranking
111

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Arthur L. Day Medal, The Geological Society of America
  • 2016 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry
  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Jay Quade is a researcher affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States, primarily working in the domain of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Anthropology, Geophysics, and Ecology.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad range within geosciences, with significant focus on:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Jay Quade has published extensively, appearing frequently in venues such as Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Quaternary Science Reviews, Quaternary Research, and Science Advances.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "The role of the westerlies and orography in Asian hydroclimate since the late Oligocene," 2020, Geology
  • "Co-occurrence of Acheulian and Oldowan artifacts with Homo erectus cranial fossils from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Resetting Southern Tibet: The serious challenge of obtaining primary records of Paleoaltimetry," 2020, Global and Planetary Change
  • "High- and low-latitude forcings drive Atacama Desert rainfall variations over the past 16,000 years," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Triple oxygen isotope compositions of globally distributed soil carbonates record widespread evaporation of soil waters," 2023, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Jay Quade's career, with frequent co-authors including:

  • David L. Dettman (10 co-authored publications)
  • Paul Kapp (9 co-authored publications)
  • Peter G. DeCelles (8 co-authored publications)
  • Naomi E. Levin (8 co-authored publications)
  • Adam M. Hudson (8 co-authored publications)

Jay Quade's contributions to geosciences have been recognized with several honors, such as the Arthur L. Day Medal from The Geological Society of America in 2018, Geochemistry Fellow Honor from the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry in 2016, and being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Global vegetation change through the Miocene/Pliocene boundary

    Thure E. Cerling;John M. Harris;Bruce J. MacFadden;Meave G. Leakey

  • Development of Asian monsoon revealed by marked ecological shift during the latest Miocene in northern Pakistan

    Jay Quade;Thure E. Cerling;John R. Bowman

  • On the isotopic composition of carbon in soil carbon dioxide

    Thure E Cerling;D.Kip Solomon;Jay Quade;John R Bowman

  • Expansion of C4 ecosystems as an indicator of global ecological change in the late Miocene

    Thure E. Cerling;Yang Wang;Jay Quade

  • Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes in Soil Carbonates

    Thure E. Cerling;Jay Quade

  • Carbon isotopes in soils and palaeosols as ecology and palaeoecology indicators

    T. E. Cerling;J. Quade;Y. Wang;J. R. Bowman

  • Stratigraphy, structure, and tectonic evolution of the Himalayan fold-thrust belt in western Nepal

    Peter G. DeCelles;Delores M. Robinson;Jay Quade;T. P. Ojha

  • Tectonic implications of U-Pb zircon ages of the himalayan orogenic belt in nepal

    P. G. DeCelles;G. E. Gehrels;J. Quade;B. LaReau

  • 2.6-Million-year-old stone tools and associated bones from OGS-6 and OGS-7, Gona, Afar, Ethiopia.

    Sileshi Semaw;Michael J Rogers;Jay Quade;Paul R Renne;Paul R Renne

  • Systematic variations in the carbon and oxygen isotopic composition of pedogenic carbonate along elevation transects in the southern Great Basin, United States

    Jay Quade;Thure E. Cerling;John R. Bowman

  • Woody cover and hominin environments in the past 6 million years

    Thure E. Cerling;Jonathan G. Wynn;Samuel A. Andanje;Michael I. Bird

  • Neogene foreland basin deposits, erosional unroofing, and the kinematic history of the Himalayan fold-thrust belt, western Nepal

    P. G. DeCelles;G. E. Gehrels;J. Quade;T. P. Ojha

  • Asian monsoons in a late Eocene greenhouse world

    A. Licht;A. Licht;A. Licht;M. van Cappelle;M. van Cappelle;H. A. Abels;H. A. Abels;J.-B. Ladant

  • Expansion of C4 grasses in the Late Miocene of Northern Pakistan: evidence from stable isotopes in paleosols

    Jay Quade;Thure E. Cerling

  • Seasonal stable isotope evidence for a strong Asian monsoon throughout the past 10.7 m.y

    David L. Dettman;Matthew J. Kohn;Jay Quade;F.J. Ryerson

  • A 22,000-Year Record of Monsoonal Precipitation from Northern Chile's Atacama Desert.

    J.L. Betancourt;C. Latorre;J.A. Rech;Jay Quade

  • Late Miocene environmental change in Nepal and the northern Indian subcontinent: stable isotopic evidence from paleosols

    Jay Quade;John M.L. Cater;Tank P. Ojha;Jon Adam

  • High and dry in central Tibet during the Late Oligocene

    Peter G. DeCelles;Jay Quade;Paul Kapp;Majie Fan

  • Predicting paleoelevation of Tibet and the Himalaya from δ18O vs. altitude gradients in meteoric water across the Nepal Himalaya

    Carmala N Garzione;Jay Quade;Peter G DeCelles;Nathan B English

  • High times on the Tibetan Plateau: Paleoelevation of the Thakkhola graben, Nepal

    Carmala N. Garzione;David L. Dettman;Jay Quade;Peter G. DeCelles

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter G. DeCelles
Peter G. DeCelles University of Arizona
Thure E. Cerling
Thure E. Cerling University of Utah
Naomi E. Levin
Naomi E. Levin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Julio L. Betancourt
Julio L. Betancourt United States Geological Survey
Claudio Latorre
Claudio Latorre Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
David L. Dettman
David L. Dettman University of Arizona
Paul Kapp
Paul Kapp University of Arizona
William C. McIntosh
William C. McIntosh New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
George E. Gehrels
George E. Gehrels University of Arizona
Katharine W. Huntington
Katharine W. Huntington University of Washington

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